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 | | The name Vani was easily found, both the name of a lake in north-eastern Anatolia and of a well known ruin village in Georgia, in the area known as Colchis in 1100 BCE, at the time when these events were supposed to take place. |
 | | But neither the Hettite’s, the Frygian’s nor the Colchidian’s were likely candidates for the Vanir, since they all lived south of the Caucasus range, and also seemed to have incompatible cultures. |
 | | On the northern slopes of the mountains, however, there lived a well known and powerful people, called Suannies by the Greek and the Svani by the Colchidians. |
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